Brownfield Restoration / Ecosystem Rehabilitation

Topics Covered: This simple game is designed to raise pollution awareness. Students are shown a picture of people taking care of their home and car, but they are doing many things that are harmful to the environment. Students must click on parts of the picture where they think someone is doing something wrong. If they are right, a more environmentally responsible alternative behavior is revealed.

Topics Covered: These classroom exercises are designed to help elementary school students learn about brownfields, pollution, and cleanup strategies. These activities inspire students to become interested in the environment and part of the solution to our pollution problems.

Topics Covered: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency developed this curriculum to aid teachers in educating students about hazardous waste issues. HAZ-ED is a compilation of activities that focus on the scientific, technical, and policy issues related to hazardous waste sites. This resource can be used as part of a larger curriculum or as stand-alone activities.

Topics Covered: This educational video explains how industrial brownfields can be transformed into useful properties that help revitalize communities. It focuses on several case studies in the Pittsburgh area and includes expert interviews that help explain the brownfield redevelopment process.

Topics Covered: Phytoremediation is a process used to clean up polluted soils. In this process, plants metabolize pollutants. This resource gives a brief overview of how the process works and factors affecting its success.

Topics Covered: This video shows how brownfields, or contaminated industrial land, can be redeveloped into productive land. This helps to revitalize urban communities and create opportunities for economic development.

Topics Covered: Outside the small town of Crozet, Virginia, the E.P.A. is using phytoremediation to remove arsenic contamination from a residential property. Phytoremediation uses specially selected plants to remove contaminants from soil and make them suitable for redevelopment.

Topics Covered: These lessons engage students in the problems of industrial pollution and land contamination through lecture, guided discussion, and activities. The exercises take a closer look at four landmark cases of industrial land contamination to help students better understand the issues.

Topics Covered: This video shows how the U.S. Army base at Fort Jackson, S.C. is using plants to help clean up an old fuel depot with soils contaminated by petroleum. Plants, such as willows and poplars, help metabolize the toxins from the heavily polluted site.